Quotes with racism

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  • Bob Cousy People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Billy Graham Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Angela Davis Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Angela Davis Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ruth Benedict Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Toni Morrison Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Angela Davis Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Stokely Carmichael Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Huey Newton The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Toni Morrison There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Cate Blanchett Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Huey Newton We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Angela Davis We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Hampton Fred We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity.
    Hampton Fred
    American activist and revolutionary socialist
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  • Malcolm X You can't have capitalism without racism.
    Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (1965) 29 mei 1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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